[ SECRET POST #5637 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5637 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

(Cozy Werewolf Anon)

No serious trad publishing marketing team is going to market a debut novel as "a reworked..." Harry potter, Star Wars, Twilight, MCU, Dragon Ball Z, One Direction ... "Fanfic!" They'd be laughed out of the office and no one would buy it in the gen pop because the general population who BUY BOOKS in a bookstore have no idea fanfic even exists and if they do, they look down on it for the most part. (I'm talking Gen Pop. Not those of us who are online all the time.)

Any indie or trad author who has any grain of sense isn't going to say this either. They might use them as comps. They might say "if you want to see two big robots in a DBZ fight" but they aren't going to go "this is a star wars/big bang theory fanfic" if they know what is good for them. (Those are 2 different examples that I personally know of. Hell, my last indie book review was "if you want a female Harry Potter in college, this is the book for you," with as much put upon sarcasm as possible because the comps given were not Harry Potter.)

Comps are great for algorithms, and death knells as marketing if the comps don't actually match the book as written. See my above parenthesis. And "this used to be a fanfic" usually comes out after hopefully several thousand copies have been sold and it is the scandal de jour for a month until they find other things to yammer about.

Maybe, maybe you can leverage your one in 1000 fandom person to buy your book to support you, but you better, like 50 Shades, have the last part of the story as hostage.

Marketing sucks. Adding "Fanfic" to it will make it suck that much more.